Niger drought: Nigeria warns it will turn back hungry refugees
AFP, July, 2005
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KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Hundreds of peasant farmers are fleeing into northern Nigeria to escape a drought in the neighbouring west African desert state of Niger, officials said, warning that many would be turned back.
"We have noticed an influx of people from the Niger Republic who cross the border illegally. They are fleeing from the famine facing them," Hassan Suleiman Kangiwa, head of the Nigerian immigration service in Katsina State, said Monday.
"We don't have statistics of the illegal immigrants but all I can say is that their number is quite substantial and we have beefed-up security at the border posts to contain the influx," he told AFP.
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Niger is one of the world's poorest countries and is facing what the United Nations World Food Programme last month dubbed a "forgotten emergency" after locust swarms and five years of virtual drought destroyed crops.
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